I am in the library today using the computer and a little boy, is eating raisins. You know the kind that come in a tiny box. Then he puts both fingers in the box and the box explodes, well breaks anyway.
Now the raisins are on the floor. Does the kid care? No he all like, “that’s the way life goes.” So he sat down and as I type this is picking the raisins up off the floor one by one and eating them.
I guess I should say something, but it’s cute and it won’t kill him.
Besides you’re not supposed to eat in the library and his mother, where ever she is, should be watching him. Or maybe she is and she doesn’t care either?
Do you let your kid eat raisins off the library floor
Here’s my story. At our event this year, I see my coworker standing in line to get some food. I walk over and say, “Are you hungry?” Because she almost never eats. She says, “No, that little kid was eating chips off the floor and I want to get her some new ones!”
I look over and there is indeed a little kid sitting on the curb by the grass. There is a small pile of chips on the ground and she is merrily eating them up! I rush over and go, “No, sweetie, don’t eat those, we’re bringing you new ones!” She gives me the cutest look - and continues eating them.
We did eventually get her a new bag of chips.
ETA: Eeww, Eve, what kind of libraries do you go to, where there is rat poop or whatever right in the middle of the floor? I’m not saying I would eat off the floor of my library, but it’s fairly clean to the eye anyway!
LOL, no they are raisins, the floor was clean, well there was nothing on it before the box exploded in his hands. If I thought they weren’t raisnins I’d say something
If the floor in the library is clean enough to eat off of then you really should be complimenting the library’s staff–not posting about it on a message board.
Yeah, the Chicago Public Library, “our books our out of date,” but the floors clean enough to eat off of. Actually that’s the one great thing Chicago does have is an excellent library.
The kid finished his raisins and went back into the child section. So I guess he lived.
Adults and kids see the world so differently in so many different ways. When the kid eats raisins or potato chips from off the floor, you and I think about the germs and general yuck that’s on that floor from people walking on it, and we’d have to be near starvation to eat something that had fallen on the floor.
Kids don’t see that at all, needless to say. Unless obvious grunge has gotten on the chips or raisins, they won’t think twice about picking them up off the floor and eating them.
And chances are they’ll be just fine, even though it’ll gross us out.
I used to eat the gritty bits from between bricks on a wall. You know, like the white/grayish part between the red bricks? I liked the crunchy feel in my teeth. I clearly remember doing this, so I was at least 8 or 9, and I clearly remember stopping when I was doing it one day and all of a sudden I almost knocked a spider into my mouth. :eek:
I guess I’m a rare one. I wouldn’t mind if my kid ate chips off the ground or raisins off the floor. It’s good to strengthen their immune system. Haven’t you heard of the hygiene hypothesis? That kid will grow up strong and healthy (probably)
Yeah - unless it was clearly getting the food covered in dirt, I’d tell my daughter it was yucky to eat food off the floor, but not make a big deal of it. She’s not yet 2 and it’s probably good for her immune system.
During a visit to my parents, the kid dropped something on the floor and reassured my Dad, “It’s ok, I *like *furry food.” before grabbing the food and scoffing it.
Of all the potential freakouts, Dad just laughed and told me, “Vacuum more.”
